Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 82
“That time she had just learned to walk. If I give her a piece of candy, she will put half of it in my mouth, but I felt sorry for her.”
In Grandpa Jiang’s eyes, his granddaughter was the best. There was no such a good granddaughter in the world.
“It’s a good thing that your granddaughter is filial to you. You should also listen to her. As you get older, you should eat well. Only when you are in good health will the juniors rest assured,” the proprietress advised the old man.
The old man was so thin, and his health didn’t look good.
“Yes, you’re right.” Grandpa Jiang nodded with a smile.
After eating and the two of them got on the train, Grandpa Jiang never closed his eyes, seeing everything fresh.
For the first time, he truly knew what the educated youths called the big city.
At night, Grandpa Jiang asked Jiang Ning to sleep for a while. But she said that she fell asleep on the boat at noon and was not sleepy, so she asked him to sleep. Grandpa Jiang was originally worried and refused to sleep, but the train was swaying and the old man fell asleep before he knew it.
When they arrived in Shanghai, it was already past eleven o’clock in the evening and close to twelve o’clock in the morning, but the lights outside the Shanghai Railway Station were still bright, and the neon lights on the door signs of various hotels, guest houses, and restaurants were flashing.
When Jiang Ning looked up, she saw a huge billboard with shining lights directly across the road from the train station.
The key room was close to the subway. It was a six-story villa-style luxury apartment with four bedrooms and two living rooms and a floor height of 6.2 meters. It came with 20 large balconies and 15 terraces. It had 70-year property rights for water and electricity. The preferential price before handover required only zero down payment.
Jiang Ning’s first thought when she saw the billboard was, “Such a good place to buy.”
Because she worked within a system in her previous life, her salary and bonuses were fixed. Even if her salary was increased, the increase would be limited. She had no other skills, so she relied on her honesty and dedication to the leader to become the leader’s confidant, and the leader trusted her. She did not dare to make any mistakes in her travels, and she was always honest. All the extra income was brought to her by writing.
She couldn’t afford to buy a house in the first few years of her career. By the time she had a certain balance to buy a house, her salary could not keep up with the soaring housing prices. Although she bought a house later and had a provident fund, and there was no pressure, she had to put in a lot of money.
It was unlikely for girls born in the city to desire to have a house of their own and settle down.
Because for someone born in a rural area, their maternal family was not their home, and their husband’s family was not their home. When they quarreled with their husband’s family, and were told to leave, the world was so big that they didn’t know where to go, and they felt confused and helpless.
Although Jiang Ning had never experienced the kind of thing like being told to get out by her husband’s family, she had seen it since she was a child.
Especially after her grandfather passed away, she felt like she had nowhere to call home in the vastness of the world, which made her feel lonely and confused as if she had been abandoned by the whole world.
She really wanted to have a house that belonged only to her, a place where she could always go. It was her own territory that no one could take from her, and no one could harm her. A huge safe, sturdy shell that she could rest in peacefully.
Rather than that, she was trembling when she mentioned her home, afraid of being beaten at any time.
In her heart, that place had never been her home, and her countless nightmares were all about being imprisoned in that dark little hut that scared her.
She quickly took out a pen and paper and wrote down the address on the billboard.
Jiang Ning found the staff at the train station and asked them which hospital in Shanghai was the most famous and best, as she wanted to take her grandfather for a physical examination.
“Zhongshan Hospital, Huashan Hospital, and Liushan Hospital. You want to take your grandpa for a physical examination, right? Then go to East China.” The staff at the train station knew a lot. “East China Hospital is just rated as a Class III A hospital this year. It’s very good in our entire Shanghai city.”
There were many good hospitals in Shanghai, but the focus of each hospital was different. For example, Zhongshan Hospital was excellent in heart and liver, Huashan Hospital was excellent in dermatology and neurology, the Orthopedics Department of Liushan Hospital was outstanding, and East China Hospital was excellent in geriatric medicine. It was also very famous in Shanghai city.
Jiang Ning decided immediately to go to East China Hospital. Jiang Ning and Grandpa Jiang were dressed in shabby clothes, and they looked like they were from the countryside.
The staff at the train station were afraid that they didn’t know how to take the bus, so he told them, “There are no buses anymore, so you can only take a taxi. If you see a taxi with no overhead lights on, it is not working. If the overhead light is on, you can just stop it.”
He also told them, “We have just launched IC card taxi meters in Shanghai this year. You don’t have to worry about taxi drivers taking advantage of you when they see you are not locals. The management is strict now.”
Afraid that they would not understand, he went directly to stop the taxi for Jiang Ning and told the driver, “Take them to the guest house near East China Hospital.” In order to prevent the driver from taking a detour, he also specifically told them in front of the driver how much it cost and if it exceeded this price not to pay.
The driver also smiled and said, “Don’t worry, I will deliver them safely. I won’t charge you a penny more.”
The train station staff then closed the door and went back to work expressionlessly. He was also very tired from working the night shift late at night.
Grandpa Jiang was brought to the big city by Jiang Ning. His eyes couldn’t get enough of the high-rise buildings, colorful neon lights, clean roads, and speeding cars.
Hearing that they were also going to take a taxi, Grandpa Jiang was worried about the money and didn’t dare to go up. Jiang Ning pushed him up and said, “Grandpa, don’t worry, sit down. The organizer said that as long as we get an invoice, it can be reimbursed.”
She said to the driver, “Mister, when you get to the guest house later, remember to give me the invoice.”
The driver heard her say that she could be reimbursed, and asked curiously, “Are you here to do business in Shanghai?”
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